(RIA Novosti) - Five alleged members of armed gangs have been detained in Chechnya, a police source in the southern Russian republic said Thursday. Four men were arrested in the capital Grozny Wednesday, when officers found two Kalashnikov assault rifles, two Makarov pistols, six rounds for a grenade launcher, six grenades and ammunition were found in their apartment. "Police detained four members of an illegal armed group in a rented apartment in Grozny after 7 a.m. (after 3 a.m. GMT)," a police source said, adding that their identities were being checked. | “The militant was detained in his home. He put up resistance and tried to escape. Police opened fire and injured the gunman, who was later hospitalized.” |
Pro-Moscow Chechen police and the remaining federal troops continue combing the republic for surviving militant groups. Sporadic fighting breaks out, although the active phase of the military campaign against militant forces has been declared over.